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The nagware worked for me. I switched to Linux. Why did I wait so long?
Was it that clown Ballmer who promised that, or was it the new Slurpee salesman?
I bought a refurbished desktop with a 900 GB HD and a fresh installation of Windows 7 Professional for wait - the miserly sum of $62.
If they’d tried something other than the ‘free candy’ marketing approach, a lot more Windows users would have given it a whirl.
Forcibly inserting that Windows 10 icon into billions of users system trays, was a draconian, heavyhanded move. Tens of millions of users (like me) objected to that intrusion on THEIR computers.
Mine won’t fire up. Not necessarily a Windows 10 problem but this laptop for some reason is dead as a door nail. Won’t power up. Toshiba.
Software so impressive you can’t give it away.
Upgraded a couple of months ago from Windows 8.1. It took a little time to adjust to the changes but the price was right.
I like it. Best Microsoft operating system ever and I go back to DOS.
We may have loaded win 10 but were turned off bad by all their very annoying pop up ads. To hell with it!
I have a permanent window box, which I hide with my browser, insisting I upgrade. There is no little ‘x’ to close said box. It’s been there about 6 months now.
I won’t upgrade, because of the subscription that’s reportedly coming. There was an article here at FR that pointed out someone found a subscription-type file in the code; days later almost on cue, MS announced it will be beta charging $7 for ‘enterprise’. So, I’m fine with not upgrading if it means I get to keep MS’s little fingers off my credit card.
Wise up Microsoft.
I’ve spent the last year trying to prevent my business customers and my home users from having their livelihoods destroyed by trying to prevent the nearly unstoppable invasion of their critical IT systems by the Windows 10 virus.
Did it fail its own metric, or did it simply fail to live up to a boast? In other words, did Microsoft ever say something along the lines of, “We need this to sell a billion devices by mid-2018 or we’re screwed” or something more like, “Hell, we won’t even be shocked if this sells a BILLION units by 2018!”
I think that when Windows users found out that Windows 10 would be a per-month rental basis in the next year or so had something to do with it.
Biggest Micro$oft screw-up IMHO was their Windows phone. That would have added a lot of WP10 devices and cross-platform commonality. But, they decided to focus on HW instead of SW and carrier support, which has never been their thing, and only ended up destroying Nokia and its future in the process.
Now the only choices in smartphone land are devices from the even more uber-lib-run Apple and Google empires of anti-freedom and love for big government.
They cant sucker or force 650 million more machines to take their crappy spyware os?
What a crock of an article. But it is the Register which is the equivalent of the Huffington Post.
One billion is their own personal goal. Whether they get there or not is not a sign of success or failure of the OS.
The OS, as of now, is used more than all Mac and Linux versions combined and then some, in case the usuals show up to try to act like an OS on hundreds of millions of devices is a failure, while those OSs they constantly try to pimp and advertise on Windows threads, that sit at a fraction of that number are some rip-roaring success.
I swear it is like some pathetic deranged obsession of some people on FR to desperate NEED Windows 10 to somehow go away in order to personally affirm their use of Ubuntu, OSx, or some old version of Windows as if normal people actually using an OS they irrationally hate makes those inoperable.
Get over it! Like it or not, those of us that use Win10 are perfectly fine with it. Be happy with what you got and stop looking for some mythical rejection of this OS.
I've spent days this week trying to get Windows Update to work again on two different computers and now a third was force fed the Update to Windows 10 yesterday and now all three are update hosed.
Yep, my past loyalty is over and done with and I'll be well on my way to pathological hatred for all things Microsoft, just as soon as I catch up on all the work I should have been doing this week instead of trying to fix the freaking update problems!
Grrrrrrrrr.....FUBG!! After all these years together since early days of MS-DOS, I thought we were friends. And then you pull this???